In what he calls the "sinister city" of Magadan, to which Stalin sent his countrymen to labor and die in uranium mines, he talks with a gulag survivor.

Arkady Tsurkov, one of those men, lives with his wife, Irina, also a gulag survivor, in a development on the West Bank near Jerusalem, a "settlement."

For gulag survivors an anti-democratic Palestine is not simply a matter between Arabs or Jews or even only a security problem for Israel.

Dr. Janusz Bardach (July 28, 1919, Odessa - August 16, 2002, Iowa City) was a gulag survivor, author, and noted plastic surgeon.

Wary as only a gulag survivor can be, Morris Hershman stands alone and theoretically triumphant amid the throngs of Soviet citizens who wait outside the American Embassy these troubled days, taunted by the hope of emigration.

The hundreds of mass graves across Siberia, where you can still reach down and pick up skull after dirt-yellowed skull with a bullet hole through it, and the memories of tens of thousands of gulag survivors tell a very different story indeed.

Reports from gulag survivors are similar.

Poles urge charges in Katyn massacre Moscow journal: A gulag survivor and his U.S. passport An outpouring of sentiment in Zaire against President Mobutu Sese Seko and his autocratic rule has been the result of Mr. Mobutu's "direct dialogue with the people."

Mr. Meade, an Irish journalist, uses this premise to create a consistently absorbing plot, which he stocks with a host of deftly drawn characters, including a C.I.A. hit man, Alex Slanski; a gulag survivor, Anna Khorev; and their French, Finnish, Estonian and Russian partners.

Pjetër Filip Arbnori (January 18, 1935 - July 8, 2006) was an Albanian gulag survivor.